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As a style and information issue I can understand why users don't have active live links but I think that mlive employees and reporters should be able to post using an link that doesn't have to be cut and pasted.

Darren and Co., keep up the good work! You seem to be a renascence man in your own right: Roasting beans, designing and packaging coffee and tea, music venue, recording studio, local brews, promoting local business etc

Hey Rod, isn't this more of just the City of South Haven building a bike path to the trail head of the Kal-Haven more than an extension of the Kal-Haven as the headline implies. The point being that the bike path and right of way will not become part of the State Park system but is paid for and will be maintained by the City of South Haven.
The South Haven city council should be commended on its aggressive expansion of bicycle paths. They will be redoing a number of streets to make accessible to more modes of transportation and have purchased and developed property to complete the Van Buren Trail which comes into the city from south.

Giz, I think it's great that your all for buying local. So am I. it's important for creating a resilient and sustainable economy. But check out study of strawberries done by Washington State University and published last September showing that the organic berries do have better nutritional value and is better for the soils. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0012346 Fertilizers and pesticides made from fossil fuels and poor tilling practices have created the worlds second largest hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. http://toxics.usgs.gov/hypoxia/hypoxic_zone.html Nutrient loading in our local rivers, streams and lakes have caused algel blooms leading to a Phosphorus (P) fertilizer ban in Allegan, Ottowa and Van Buren Counties in West Michigan and a statewide P-ban that goes into effect next January. Miss Bonfiglio's article does a good explainin' the economic realities of conscientious farmers in South West michigan. Thanks
Happy Eating!

The Kal-Haven and many of the other state linear trails are not actually receiving funds from the passport system and will not be able to count on a consistant funding stream which the supposedly the passport system was suppose to provide. Tie that in with the new legislature looking to change the constitution and take money from the Natural Resources Trust Fund: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(nfdbnq45432rapiv5ix5ya55))/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&objectname=2011-HJR-B, puts the trail systems on unsure footing.